Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A comprehensive approach to conserving endangered species requires data on the geographic distribution, habitat, and abundance of species from ...

Stephen Garnett receives funding from the Australian Research Council for a project on taxonomic list governance and coordinates the Catalogue of Life Working Group on Taxonomic Lists. Aaron M. Lien ...

A new survey shows most taxonomists now agree on how a single authoritative list of the Earth’s species would work. Species lists are one of the unseen pillars of science and society. Lists of species ...

While insect populations continue to decline, taxonomic expertise in Europe is at serious risk, confirms data obtained within the European Red List of Insect Taxonomists, a recent study commissioned ...

A spotfin scorpionfish hides in lobe coral. Such marketing of scientific names is controversial, but it’s one way of raising awareness of the vast number of organisms on Earth still unknown. Of the ...

The biodiversity community must learn from its counterparts in the physical and biomedical sciences and move towards the provision of unhindered access to its baseline data: taxonomic descriptions, ...

When marine taxonomists Dr Jannes Landschoff and Emeritus Professor Charles Griffiths first set the target of scientifically documenting the life in False Bay’s kelp forests, they suspected they were ...

A couple of months ago beetles were demoted. Biologists had long thought these insects were life's most diverse order, but according to a new study in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B ...

Horseflies are fierce. Like mosquitoes, they require a blood meal before they can reproduce. But even for a horsefly, this one was special. Bryan Lessard first spotted her in the Australian National ...